The evidence shows, she says, that antipsychotics not only do not work long-term they also cause brain damage - a fact which is being "fatally" overlooked. Plus, because of a cocktail of vicious side-effects, antipsychotics almost triple a person's risk of dying prematurely.

Can you die from antipsychotics?

Nonetheless, in rare cases, people have died as a result of taking atypical antipsychotic drugs at therapeutic and supratherapeutic doses. Toxic doses of atypical antipsychotics are highly variable: some patients have died while taking therapeutic doses and others have survived massive overdoses.

Are antipsychotics dangerous?

Previous research has also shown that the use of antipsychotics may raise the risk of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia. Metabolic syndrome has, in turn, been associated with heart disease and diabetes.